Guild Wars 2

The megaservers have made it very difficult for WvW. You can’t do a call out in LA for more players to defend Garrison, or recruit for a WvW guild… It’s bad for WvW, but the megaservers are good for PvE, and no question about it. Going into a heavily populated LA feels good. Being able to recruit and play with guild members no matter what server they are on is a good thing.

What I propose is a marketing area similar to the Airship or the Royal Terrace that is server dependent. A place that offers PvE’ers a good reason to sometimes go there — free access, conveniently placed services, egress to the same place that you left. A server based area that would let people from WvW jump in and ask for players to go help with an attack on Stone Mist, or ask for extra borderland defense…

I do understand that the market centers are currently a profit center for A-Net, but WvW is also a profit center. WvW desperately needs a server based area in the PvE main maps.

Even if I’m ragging about WvW population and how Anet needs to stop ignoring the gamemode; this seem like a good idea as a FIX until something more drastic is done to the gamemode (Merging empty servers, creating a special hub, changing rules, ACTIVE surveillance of hackers, etc)

since the megaservers happened people have been asking for Lions Arch to go back to server specific. I don’t know if we’ve seen any feedback back on why that is not possible or would pose a problem. Maybe it is just a mess to make one map set behave differently from the rest. I get the feeling ANET believes their map placement priority code of joining maps with friends & guild members first somehow addresses this but if that was their plan then it is way too hidden.

I often see a lot of the same names in Lion’s Arch chat of people I play with in WvW but I would never know if I am in the “most JQish version” of LA at any given time so it seems kind of pointless. Given how often it has been requested I would hope they are working on something but it is hard when we don’t see much acknowledgement from the team on these things.

I wish Guild Wars 2 could utilize the district version of city maps like the original game. It would be so simple for each city (or even just LA) to have a drop down list of 1-24 map districts named for their servers with as many additional overflows as needed at any given time and players default into their home-world version if not full but can select numbers beyond 24 to meet with friends from other worlds.

Wvw/server chat channel might be best optiOn. Message is broadcast to your servermates no matter what map they are on. Wvw can recruit there. Pve only can turn chat off if the talk is always wvw recruiting and they are not interested.

I also like server specific la, but wonder if it would look too empty on some servers. And if las was switched, What about dr, hoelbrak, grove, rata sum?

(1) LA server specific.

(2) Server chat.

(3) A own WvW server specific base map, like a mix of homeBL citadels and Heart Of The Mist. a WvW only map, that is only for your server, a home map. With all the services you’re used to in Citadel. Have this be the default WvW map to go too, and have portals and stuff like usual. Then ENCOURAGE people to use this for the free services, TP, bank/craft stations, merchants etc, and the free portal to LA. Then people can use this instead of the HomeBL (in case of queue’s and idling in citadel etc). It also becomes a server specific place to meet others from same server, recruit and call for help.

(4) Offer milk to the great kitten in the tree, and hope he grazes you with fortune and blessings.

LA specific would kill lower tier servers where most population left but still count as “populated” since the accounts remain. So that’s a big NO.

Server chat and WvW hub map are better ideas.

I mentioned a server chat channel in the “something needs to be done about ET & DR” thread and I’m going to second that here. It’s the simplest option, and would fix the two glaring problems introduced with megaservers.

1. Advertising/Recruiting for WvW guilds outside of WvW
2. Rallying PvEers to join the fight

Serverwide chat channel would be easier and Anet WANTS people to stay in LA, they don’t want everyone crowding into a small area because the stuff is better placed, and they sure as heck wouldn’t want it to be free.

It’s a good idea but it wouldn’t fly, especially for free.